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New Gaming Rig - Advice Welcomed

Hello,

I'm looking to build a new gaming rig over the next few months with the idea of being fully functional when Rainbow Six Siege is released in October. The last machine I built was in 2010 and I've also included the details of that older rig for historical purposes.

The components below for the new machine are a first pass and I'm hoping for some advice. I'd like to make sure that everything I've chosen is compatible with the MB first and foremost. I'd also like to assure that I can re-use the tower, western digital HD's, and CD/DVD drives. I've initially made the decision to upgrade the processor (only item I've already purchased), power supply, CPU fan, motherboard, video card, and memory.

Budget: $2000
Any support, clarity, and advice are greatly appreciated!

Re: New Gaming Rig - Advice Welcomed

Jethro and Kbo how does each others ••••• feel?
Lets see 2 40 something year olds who one I know cant get it up and the other well I think a maoist solution would be better then a gulag for you.

Just one thing, what makes you think the 150 dollar chip cant power 2 furys despite "ancient" technology?
N00bs

But no I know K isnt, hes just flaimbaiting and trollling, but remember what the don ordered well you dont know exactly, I hinted it and begged it. SOon not that soon but soon you will no longer be able to even troll here for that all you willl see is 404s or domain non existent

Re: New Gaming Rig - Advice Welcomed

Originally Posted by kbohip

$200 for a mobo that's running an ANCIENT chipset!? I thought by now that at the very least the mobos to run AMD's Dinosaur line of cpu's would be cheap!

A person who reads independent reviews about gaming hardware would spend $50 more on an intel CPU, $50 less on the motherboard, and get MUCH higher performance for the same price. (and have higher re-sale value, more re-sale customers, lower cost to run, less heat dumped into the case and room)

We clearly see that the Core i7-3770K gets a bigger boost from two Radeon HD 7970s in CrossFire than AMD's FX-8350, but that could just be a general indication of lower CPU performance from the Vishera-based CPU.

Conversely, the FX-8350 appears to favor Nvidia's SLI technology over CrossFire. This is just another data point quantifying the potential validity of claims that AMD's cards are more limited on its own processors

CrossFire boosts gaming performance on Intel's Core i7-3770K by 72%, but only manages to speed up frame rates on AMD's FX-8350 by 47%

There is the reason no one spending $2000 would ever consider an AMD CPU. The 8350 would limit performance of the high end Crossfire or SLi graphics.

This is actually how I ended up kicking AMD out of my primary gaming rig. I had a FX-60 that I paid big bucks for, and 8800GTX SLi and my framerates were way lower than the what I saw in reviews of 8800GTX Sli. I'm talking 15-20fps lower averages running in game benchmarks.

Bought a Core 2 Duo motherboard, and I started getting the same framerates as the reviews.

Buying AMD for a high end rig is paying a lot of money for high end graphics, and then losing the performance the high end graphics can offer because you cheaped out on the AMD processor. It's like buying a Ferrari and putting a little 4 cylinder in it.